Only after we can learn to forgive ourselves can we accept others as they are because we don't feel threatened by anything about them which is better than us.

I am not a product of my circumstances. I am a product of my decisions.

To achieve goals you've never achieved before, you need to start doing things you've never done before.

The key is not to prioritize what's on your schedule, but to schedule your priorities.

Integrity is conforming reality to our words - in other words, keeping promises and fulfilling expectations.

Most of us spend too much time on what is urgent and not enough time on what is important.

Make small commitments and keep them. Be a light, not a judge. Be a model, not a critic. Be a part of the solution, not the problem.

Our ultimate freedom is the right and power to decide how anybody or anything outside ourselves will affect us.

When you really listen to another person from their point of view, and reflect back to them that understanding, it's like giving them emotional oxygen.

Improve relationships with others by assuming that they can hear everything you say about them

Most people do not listen with the intent to understand; they listen with the intent to reply.

You can either worry or wonder. The best choice is to wonder.

He cupped her head with both hands. “You’re full of your own kind of magic, and it’s much more rare and beautiful than all the other spells around you. They are commonplace. You are unique.

The greatest discovery is to find a hero within oneself that will choose life over death

The first time I sang in the church choir two hundred people changed their religion.

Pain is a part of life. It's certainly part of my creative process.

If 50 percent of your career is not filled with failure, you're not really successful.

Many people on the street recognize me and are so positive...I am extremely passionate about helping others get healthy and I never feel bothered when fans stop and want to talk.

Free, open love I have looked upon as dog's love. Secret love is, besides, cowardly.

Isn't it true that it's not people who meet, but rather the shadows cast by their imaginations?

They that censure, should practice. Or else let them have the first stone, and the last too.